The Hatred Of Small Business

[@seganesergrafxvision64_92]

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[@ShortFatOtaku]

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[@fredrick8958]

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[@J-Wolf17FTW]

And many more on Channel 4.

[@therealfriday13th]

"Stealing from a shop isn't the same as stealing from a person." Correct. You're stealing from multiple people. The store owner, the employees, the actual customers...

[@Lonovavir]

It's stealing from everyone because the store has to pay for the stolen item somehow, either increasing the price on other products or higher insurance premiums etc.

[@1685Violin]

How can they justify the sophistry of letting "protected groups" loot businesses because of "oppression" and then claim those businesses have insurance? Even normies and left leaning centrists believe this.

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

Every store owner should have a gun

[@Damama]

@@09f9 well if all goods were equal to all peoples this would be a very accurate statement its actually much worse then that. most store owners are not going to jack up the price of chips because a bunch of newports were stolen but all those who smoke would have to either deal with a shortage or an increase in the price to compensate. Conversely if someone where to steal water during a emergency/shortage the cost of the water is felt much more intensely by those who might need it such as the customers while the store owner will generally be able to aquire more of fairly easily and might not even care if it was stolen.

[@GameFuMaster]

@@09f9 except that's if it was only 1 business then sure. But it's going to affect the owner more, because they raise prices, then get outcompeted by owners who aren't getting their stuff stolen.

[@TrevorNWhite]

At this point, “working class” to these people seemingly just means “me and my friends in the service industry until our art takes off”

[@SassyTesla]

underrated, have an updoot

[@chad_bro_chill]

"Service industry" is a loaded (inflated?) term. These people aren't garbagemen, janitors, or the like, providing something of actual value that keeps society functioning.

[@wrongthinker843]

What people? I only see commies there.

[@hellacoorinna9995]

"We've got a co-opt at our weed-cafe!" "So you're shareowners?" "..n-uh-n-no....?"

[@DuskLegend]

@@misanthropicservitorofmars2116 to be fair, you sound like a mental slave too.

[@andrewryan1946]

“Small Business Owners are not a necessary part of society” Literally the first tweet, and I’m hemorrhaging brain cells from the intense stupidity trauma that caused

[@simonpetrikov3992]

I think my chance of a heart attack just went up

[@woodwyrm]

We both know, deep down, that one socialist blowhard or another would vocalize such socialist nonsense lmao

[@georgebailey8179]

"Wannabe socialists are not a necessary part of society". There, fixed it for them.

[@vaguelymodest6239]

After just a few minutes in, I’m convinced that these people are no different to cogs in a machine. As a zoomer, it’s disturbing how so many millennials are turning into mindless brainlets and yet they like to lecture us about being just like them!

[@woodwyrm]

@@georgebailey8179 true lmao

[@milesdp1990]

"If you can't afford to have shoplifters at your business, you can't afford to have a business." Maybe, if you can't afford to pay for an item, you can't have the item? Maybe spend less on your fancy coffees too?

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

Just tell the socialists that if they can't afford to own a home, food, healthcare, or their luxury items, they can't have them.

[@nothingreallyrhymeswithora9377]

Chances are those kids are spoiled punks who fetishize socialism principles. They haven't had any real experience with working yet. Let them get a reality check. Either that, they move to a socialist country and see what it's like to live in actual poverty.

[@MrDj232]

Tell a leftist to drink less Starbucks and save for their future: "How dare you. I'm poor because of society, not because of my reckless spending and inability to budget." Tell a leftist not to shoplift: "If you can't afford to be robbed you can't afford to be in business. Drink less Starbucks you fascist."

[@voskresenie-]

my first exposure to this was in high school shortly after the iPhone came out, talking to a friend about how stupid it was for people to buy a phone with a loan/'payment plan', and that if you can't afford to pay up front for it, you can't afford it. "You can't just say that! You don't get to decide what other people _deserve_ to have." I was completely dumbfounded. To me, it seems obvious that it's not a matter of what you deserve - life is never a matter of what you deserve - it's a matter of dealing with the circumstances you live in, fair or not. But the same mentality that encourages people to take out loans with 20% interest to buy a commodity also encourages people to just steal those things. It's entitlement. It's denial of the nature of the world, just like their anti-work mentality. Only being able to have things you can afford isn't oppression. Needing to work to live isn't oppression. It's just how the world works.

[@sol-hunter2332]

Socialist: "Workers must own the means of production." worker who owns his means of production: exists Socialist: "Its treason then..."

[@markstrom3630]

It’s just jealousy at this point

[@alexkozliayev9902]

@@markstrom3630 Always been

[@Tengu125]

​@@markstrom3630 Marx didn't love the workers. In fact, he looked down at them, like the upper-class snob he was. He did, however, hate that he had to work at all for the luxurious lifestyle that he enjoyed, and that there were people who had more than he did. The revolution is a rebellion against a reality that would dare to force an entitled socialist/communist to labour for the things they want because they lack the skills or drive to produce for themselves. The doctrine is merely ideological justification to explain why the Benevolent Leader/Party should effectively rule as tyrants, and history seems to suggest that there's no actual intention of having this power structure ever go away. Has there ever been even a single socialist/communist regime that let itself be dissolved, or did it always just turn out that the revolutionaries had simply made themselves the new ruling class by exploiting the ignorant?

[@Formerlywendytestaburger1621]

@@Tengu125 lol he never complained about his own life in his theories he was just observing the struggles the workers where going through and he appealed to them because they were being exploited and treated like shit the workers didnt start uprisings for fun

[@Formerlywendytestaburger1621]

@@Tengu125 also the way dev catogorises lumpen proletariat is inaccurate. lumpen proletariat are people who are outside of the mode of production either they are unemployed or people who make money through criminal activity basically its not possible for them to overthrow the bourgeois because they arent working for them

[@TheGreenKnight500]

Starting a small business is a very effective way to pull yourself out of poverty. Many small business owners are impoverished people trying to turn their lives around. Screwing with them is a truly evil thing.

[@sik3xploit]

@@timgt5 Adding all that difficulty being intentional.

[@robertstan9733]

@@sik3xploit really does look like it yeah

[@Rebrn-bk5em]

I don’t think many Americans or even people in the west suffer poverty look at 3rd world people for true poverty. Even the poorest among us are relatively better off than others in rural Africa or South America

[@Gulgathydra]

@@Rebrn-bk5em That's largely because there are social programs and other protections that help people avoid abject poverty. Everything from food stamps and medicare to employment insurance and workers comp. And let's not forget public schooling. Without these things, all it takes is one bad day to send you from middle-class to unrecoverable poverty.

[@scudinferno]

These people don’t like poor people they just hate the rich

[@CyriInfil]

Very interesting how it went from “only steal from walmart” to “if you don’t let me steal from you you’re a fascist”

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

Always has been

[@TheLurker1647]

"If you don't like thievery, you're a fascist!" 99% of people: "Okay I guess" And then one day, for no reason at all...

[@garbearfar1394]

Seems like there’s this weird kinda angled surface that is kinda slick and hard to stay in one spot on… if only I could think of some kind of simple phrase on this hmmmmm perhaps a slippery slope… oh my

[@HeroSword_P]

@@garbearfar1394 hahahaha

[@darkzeroprojects4245]

It's rather predictable.

[@BruhMoment-fr4zr]

I love how "Fascists" are basically just normal people now lmao

[@Lonovavir]

As of 2020 "Fascist" meant people who disagree with you.

[@liquid_oxygen]

Ironically, the people who use Fascist the most are probably Fascists themselves, since they so desperately want to suppress the other side.

[@marjorie4310]

It means Not a Gibbering Frothing Communist Pervert. Those are apparently the ‘good guys’.

[@Garrus1995]

When everyone’s a fascist, no one will be.

[@johnrockwell5834]

They will still after us. So we need to protect ourselves.

[@slimeinabox]

Them: “I hate megacorps, they have to much money” Also them: “Small shop owners are evil”

[@npcimknot958]

also them- where the f is my uber eats organic gmo free vegan burger!!!

[@slimeinabox]

@@npcimknot958 lol

[@avroarchitect1793]

I hate multi-nationals because they are threats to national independence and national security

[@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749]

"They won't let me steal from them!!!!"

[@slimeinabox]

@@drsamuelhaydensecretgaming6749 Lolx2

[@fnord4960]

Their hatred comes from their own lack of self-worth and selfishness. They cannot bear that some people are successful and independent.

[@randomprotag9329]

also its not a government solution so it shows a solution thats better than giving the government power

[@darkzeroprojects4245]

Socialisim n such thrive on these people.

[@fnord4960]

@@darkzeroprojects4245 Every violent ideology throughout history relies on miserable, resentful outcasts to bolster their ranks.

[@Rebrn-bk5em]

We should just get rid of “luxury items” and that would solve their jealousy I think. Just make everything dull and standardized

[@frenchfrey65]

and that's what is so ironic about communism and communists. From my pov, the end goal of communism is to abolish the self, selfish thoughts, desires, wants, and needs, for everyone and everything must be equal (Equality of Outcome). Communists in the end, are still selfish, desire power, and like you said, can't stand people whom are self made.

[@darkdwarf007]

the decline of USSR literally started with the crackdown on small businesses in favour of centralised production, these people are a joke

[@sik3xploit]

They are also an economic disaster, threatening to bring the entire globe into poverty.

[@sirazazeloflowkey6424]

People who believe they deserve the fruits of another person's labor for the virtue of wasting our collective oxygen will always be a joke. They will also always be pathetic.

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

@@sirazazeloflowkey6424 That's why I'm anti-Capitalist

[@sirazazeloflowkey6424]

@@nektariosorfanoudakis2270 I was talking about Communists and Socialists. Capitalists invest money, arrange production and extract value for their labor. It is the socialist/communist/collectivist mentality that says we have to all pull together for some common good. They are the ones breaking up small buisinesses in favor of centralised production. Free Market Capitalism under the watchful eye of a democratically elected small government is the best way thus far that we have been capable to invent. If left free, it is self-regulating, self-adapting and sustainable. Problem is, too much government interferance and corruption, not capitalism. Don't get me wrong though, Capitalism ain't perfect. But until we invent something better, it's the best thing we got. All other existing systems pale in comparison.

[@scootza1]

​@@nektariosorfanoudakis2270no reply - fucking DESTROYED LOLOLOL

[@UmamaGoblin]

It's disgusting how people are defending thieves. Also, everytime someone says "insurance covers it" I respond with "then why do you complain when a cop kills someone? There is life insurance after all"

[@GangsterFrankensteinComputer]

They had no idea how insurance even works. They think it's just free money for being a capitalist.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

I think it’s a form of blinders to keep some from seeing how badly innocent people are impacted by damage to their businesses.

[@ThisisKyle]

Because they're stupid people that don't understand how the world works in any way

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

Fuckers can only think in institutions and power terms, no care for the people despite the claims for the contrary. Insurance isnt a magical eraser for stealing and there is still damage done to store owners and employees.

[@Shade7x]

It's interesting that when it comes to material things they say "it's just stuff"... as though their _entire_ dehumanized worldview weren't based on the equitable supply and distribution of said stuff. Stuff is pretty important to most of us, actually.

[@_Vengeance_]

They want a corporate dystopia? Because that's how you get a corporate dystopia. Small businesses keep the power of big businesses in check, because it is choice where to shop that forces big business to exhibit some level of morality.

[@Canadish]

A C C E L E R A T I O N I S T S

[@nmmeswey3584]

@@Canadish WE NEED A CLEAN START

[@Lonovavir]

Precisely, notice how many corporations and billionaires supported lockdowns in 2020? Lockdowns that decimated small businesses and spiked corporate profits?

[@nmmeswey3584]

@@Lonovavir careful there, you reply is hidden. Any more free thought and you'll get a visit from the Gestapo to check your thinking

[@MissEldira]

@@nmmeswey3584 Without saying it, what was the wrong think?

[@floki_vt]

To be honest, she probably has at least one more person on staff there, so I doubt she left the store completely unmanned.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

Nothing wrong with temporarily closing and locking up.

[@garbearfar1394]

I love how people think she just ran out the door after her. What a waste of thought jfc

[@floki_vt]

@@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin I never said there was, but I doubt she didnt have other staff.

[@drewmalesky9869]

Extra thumbs ups for incorporating Norm Macdonald. Tankies see small business owners as Kulaks. How dare they incur risk and possibly become successful!

[@joshuarichardson6529]

All of socialism was a horrible mistake. Nothing good has come from it in two centuries.

[@Snakeit100]

The fact that the Soviets referred to the kulaks in a similar fashion as the Nazi did to Jews and are not equally reviled for it is beyond me. What's even more vile is that a "Kulak" could include virtually anybody whereas you couldnt just be a Jew at the governments discretion. Mind you the Nazi's would just contrive some other reason for killing but I digress

[@drewmalesky9869]

​@@Snakeit100 Anyone who has ever read Gulag Archipelago Volume 1, would never make any moral distinction between Stalinist Communism and Nazism. Two of the most heinous ideologies ever produced by humans.

[@gothicpando]

yes the awnser is for all to be equally poor.

[@connoisseurofcookies2047]

@@Snakeit100 Reminds of a while back when I was stalking some extremist meme pages I noticed a pattern. A Neo-N*** page posted a meme with a screenshot from a list, New York's 100 worst landlords, where it's insinuated that most of the last names were Jewish. And on leftist pages the pattern is overwhelming hatred for landlords. I then realized that leftists hate landlords for the same reason N***s hated the Jews.

[@GoblinKnightLeo]

Small businesses are hard to control and compromise. Big businesses are easy to subvert.

[@Galgus2000]

To steal a phrase, it's easier to control one big dog on a leash than many small dogs with leashes.

[@brandonbackup873]

Honestly, the line between big corporations and big government is so blurred that it's nigh on impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.

[@Spazzboy911]

"I want to see your manager!" "I'm self employed, I am the manager" "Finally, results. So, I want you to fire yourself"

[@mattf967]

"Stealing from a shop isn't the same as stealing from a person" But that person owns the shop...and the things in the shop...

[@Bready_Player_Bun]

"I didn't steal from a person! I stole from a wallet! It's not my problem that person was carrying it and claiming exclusive ownership of the wallet and its contents!"

[@joshuarichardson6529]

ALL of socialism is about taking property from people and promising to someday redistribute those stolen goods back to the people "in an equitable way". They're doing what comes naturally to the left. Stalin, Hitler, and Mao showed us what "equitable" means to the left.

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

@@hahmann Should have mentioned the insurance group snaps their fingers and all damages are instantly repaired and all items are instantly replaced. As if nothing bad ever happened.

[@ChachaNuVaughn]

"Shoplifting is moral and good." Aaaaaand that's when my brain shut off. Holy cripes on toast, these people are evil.

[@KaNoMikoProductions]

The tweets in the beginning were wild. I've literally never seen anyone, ever, online or off, who held such vitriol for small businesses or their owners. I had no idea this was a thing. Wtf?

[@icecell]

Right? I want to refuse to believe people like those actually exists and they're just trolling. It's an insult to actual r´tarded people.

[@tereninsecundus6084]

Communism. Not even once.

[@MrLolguy93]

You should do a video on the '92 Roof Koreans. Imagine if we had Twitter back then. We'd see Koreans be called "White"

[@lilmoeszyslak4810]

They are being called white. Even black people who disagree with their bs are called white.

[@SkylineFTW97]

The roof Koreans are the example the rest of us should be following after 2020.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

The left already calls pro-business asians "whites" because they hold same pro-capitalist views most westerners do. It's gotten to the point where even some alt-right white supremacists admire asian nations and envy what they have. Then again, this is the political left, and they'll call black people who run a business "white" if they won't align with their politics. The left are just plain crazy.

[@davedave8263]

And these are the same people that are going to cry when their neighbourhoods go to crap and they have to go half way across the city to buy food because no one wants to own a business in these neighbourhoods.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

Some of them don’t have to live in those neighborhoods but would be very upset if it happened in theirs. I saw a video a while back of an elderly, disabled lady totally crushed and crying because the stores around her had been destroyed or vacated due to unrest and she had no way to get the food or medicine she needed. I also saw one of a middle-aged Black man breaking down because his small business (a food truck, I believe) had been destroyed in the same way. Too easy for the people cheerleading destruction from afar to turn a blind eye to real human consequences

[@randomduck8679]

The story of Bodega Bro thinks otherwise.

[@kriegjaeger]

Most of them are upper middle class to filthy rich crust funders and will never suffer the consequence of their actions.

[@haramsaddam238]

My father was a small business owner and we had tweakers stealing equipment and truck parts all the time. The business did reasonably well and I was lucky to be brought up in a modestly middle class household, but even then insurance was too expensive to not go bankrupt. The fact these stooges have the nerve to tell people how to run an independent business - while they themselves undoubtedly lack the dedication and common sense required to do more than fill out paperwork for someone else or serve coffee is infuriating.

[@someguy4384]

Insurance agent here Most business insurance on property comes with a deductible. So, basically, when someone steals from you that's not just money out of your pocket for the product. It's that same money again spent paying your deductible.

[@fredrick8958]

When we had our own "Summer of LOVE" here in my country, back in 2021, the rioters too burned a lot of small businesses. I never understood why seeing as how small businesses are very important for our economy. Now I understand why. Man the more I hear about Socialist, the more they remind me of the Southern Slavers.

[@prettyboyjeremy]

Communism is the very definition of failure. Communism works with the expectation you're a mindless drone who never has any self interest

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

Socialism is driven by envy and pride, every movement based on that will destroy everything of value they can't take over. One of the he biggest example of that was Castro, who was perfectly fine with Cuba burning to the ground and the world starting a nuclear conflict as long as his enemy didn't get to win

[@robertbeisert3315]

In fairness, an American Slav had a chance that their master would treat them as valuable investments instead of disposable resources.

[@PenTheMighty]

There is a reason Democrats have been courting them.

[@toledochristianmatthew9919]

The democrat party used to be southern slavers so yeah.

[@sooperdude22]

"Workers of the world, unite!" ... ... _"For Amazon's profit margins!"_

[@romualdaskuzborskis]

The problem with that "pro worker" is they want the priviledge of ownership of means of production with out any responsibility of ownership.

[@avroarchitect1793]

they also totally lack the skills and knowledge to manage it

[@romualdaskuzborskis]

@@avroarchitect1793 indeed some of them dont, although I believe the lack of skills stems from the same lack of responsibility. When you feel responsible for yourself (and maybe your family) - you get whatever skills necessary. On the other hand, there are commies with great leadership and communication skills essential to propper management (like Vaush for exmp.). But then these are the bitter angry commies that hate the world because nothing they do has any meaning.

[@worldofdoom995]

Ding ding ding! You hit it right on the head

[@gideonjones5712]

"Shoplifting is moral and good. Why are people applauding this?" How do these people function my fucking brain hurts just reading that Society is too far gone, just let me move to Mars already. I don't think I even care if it's a one way trip anymore, that might be preferrable.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

The moon is a more easier option to do this

[@gideonjones5712]

@@simonpetrikov3992 eh, too close to earth. I might start to miss gravity and water and plants if I can still see them all out the window.

[@flamestoyershadowkill]

@@gideonjones5712 what about venus

[@vaclavjebavy5118]

@@flamestoyershadowkill Uranus might be an option

[@robertstan9733]

@@Rudi__yt1 Living on Mars would require more work to survive than on Earth so I don't think commies will show up until we've finished terraforming. And by that time, we'll have finished the Liberty Prime AI that will guard all entry points using soy level measurements to filter out commie spies.

[@dy031101]

Somehow I keep being reminded by this of how homicidally hostile MovieBob is to people who don't live in large cities.

[@Google_Censored_Commenter]

Why in the world didn't the lady just give the stuff back? Why in the world would she suffer through an entire bus ride with her, while being humiliated publically? Surely, at that point she must have known she was never getting to go home with the stolen goods... just why?

[@timothybroughton5651]

It's her fetish?

[@FarelForever]

Yeah.... when I think of a poor innocent person, barely getting by, and being desperate just to survive in a ruthless world.... I think of someone shoplifting a sex-shop!

[@cortholiopezorama8879]

Maybe she was stealing some “means of production” for the worlds oldest profession?

[@joshuarichardson6529]

@@cortholiopezorama8879 Oddly enough, prostitutes tend to be very law-abiding people, as they don't want trouble from the cops. Okay, there is that ONE exception, but otherwise....

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

@@cortholiopezorama8879 kek

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

Its always funny that they try to use the "they were just trying to survive" quote but then not say anything about how the fast majority of these cases are stealing luxury goods. Its almost never a can of soup, some fruit, or say some milk. My first job was at a grocery store. We constantly found, alcohol, candy, ear buds, hair die, condoms, and plenty of other stuff people could live without. Some would even pretend to shop and leave a cart of perishables just to steal those items listed. So now on top of theft, you also had cost of damaged goods if we didn't get to that stuff fast enough.

[@chrisw207]

Yes, they have insurance: the same shitty insurance that tries to screw you over that we all have. Ugh, what is with these people?

[@SkylineFTW97]

Even the mundane car insurance is a crapshoot. I have 2 friends who have been waiting over a year for a payout on accidents that weren't their fault. And every time they call, they get the runaround.

[@Ashigeru47]

What's up with these people? They're ignorant thieves justifying their wrong doing, and selfish greed, using Marxist stupidity.

[@TheDarkAngel969]

And here I thought people only hated large businesses like walmart, especially with how often I hear it at walmart

[@sik3xploit]

They're lazy turds who expect government to do everything for them.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

The left hate everyone and everything. They're self-loathing, but refuse to accept their own terribleness, so they project it outwards.

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

If Covid has taught me anything. It’s that they absolutely love big business and want you to be destitute and or dead.

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

Basically, they want everything to be centralized so they only have one target to go after. If you allow for small businesses everywhere, that requires more work to infiltrate and corrupt. You corrupt the big one, its tainted. If you corrupt a few of the smaller ones, the others will stop the plague as best they can.

[@bungoboy5718]

To these people you "own your labor" when its labor dictated by the state, but not when you use your labor to further your own interests. In fact, labor for yourself is meaningless and your assets can be taken by others because, well, you're not supposed be owning anything anyway.

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

Using your labor for your own interests is greedy, Comrade. You should only do what the state dictates as necessary. Lest you acquire more than you absolutely need.

[@kriegjaeger]

OUR labor, comrade.

[@benclark4823]

YOU WILL own NOTHING and be HAPPY 🥰

[@draketheduelist]

I work at a small software development shop (which kinda' grew out of a janitorial company). These days, I'm interacting with my boss _a lot_ because my job is to code. His is to basically manage the office politics, keep them off my back, and filter in the constructive criticism. In this, what _are_ the means of production? The computer? Leaving aside that it's a Crapple CrackBook and I'd sooner seize an infected genital lesion (and when this contract ends, you can bet that I'm gonna' return that CrackBook with the force and enthusiasm of a mass driver), I already have machines of my own, and mine are way nicer. Is the means of production my boss's brain? How would one seize something like that? (Other than literally, and I maaaaaaay be going out on a limb here, but I'm pretty sure seizing a human brain directly kinda' reduces its value... considerably.) The average person doesn't work at factories or on farms anymore. Some do, but those are basically the fewest specialists that our society can get away with doing those jobs. More often than not, the means of production are ideas. Plans. Strategies. You can't _seize_ that. You can only _learn_ it. Get with the times, filthy commies.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

Capitalism has already given the original socialists everything they called for, but not what they really wanted. The "means of production" have been mass-produced to such an extent that you can buy a 3-d printer for less than the cost of a small car, and in many cases for less than the cost of a fancy suit of clothes. But what the socialists really wanted was control and power. That needs to be denied to them, or they'll unleash unrelenting horror on the rest of us.

[@woobilicious.]

The capital is mostly in labour contracts, other contracts and property (if lucky enough to not be renting office space), and they're only worth something because the government is willing to be a 3rd party arbitrator to enforce those contracts. This is the worst kind of capital to a Marxist because it's intangible and will disappear under their system.

[@loliH9]

*>INSURANCEINSURANCEINSURANCEINSURANCEINSURANCEINSURANCE out of nowhere* These fucking people.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

It drives me nuts when people say that. It isn’t magic money! I wish they’d look up how that kind of insurance works, and the consequences of many people making major claims, before they make that argument. That would lead them toward seeing how badly people get hurt in these situations, including people they never wanted hurt.

[@anniedong8751]

The argument that stealing from a shop is different from stealing from a person is weird considering if you run a sole proprietorship you're legally considered the same entity as your sole proprietorship, tax wise and responsibility wise.

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Stealing is just plain wrong.

[@ThisisKyle]

Agreed. I'm so tired of seeing people trying to justify the fact they're entitled assholes. I've seen to many people say it's okay to pirate games because a AAA company made it

[@t.k.5844]

It's almost like not stealing is one of the Ten Commandments.

[@robertbeisert3315]

@@ThisisKyle Consider the following: If I tell my child a story about Sherlock Holmes playing ping pong with Winnie the Poo while Mickey Mouse and Spiderman paint the house, it's technically IP theft. If I draw a picture of Mario or make a little flash game with sprites I drew that are 100% the same as the ones Nintendo drew, even if I don't distribute it outside my own home, it's technically IP theft. Heck, if I quote Jordan Peterson's books, that's also IP theft, since I never bought any of the darn things and wouldn't have the right to distribute, anyway. This is, legally speaking, the same kind of theft as digital piracy. Does that make any actual sense?

[@Rebrn-bk5em]

Tell that to the politicians and mega rich lol

[@TheLurker1647]

Say what you will about Islam, but I think they have the right idea when it comes to thieves.

[@Billmaster115]

I believe Hitler once said that they - the national socialist party - should nationalise people nstead of business. I believe this is a key element to understanding fascism, because it reveals that the fascist state does not look to socialise industry or business, but people instead. By socialising people, the fascist state effectively owns them, and by extension owns everything they own. This is why I dispute the idea that capitalism and fascism are in any way compatible, because the spirit of capitalism is independence.

[@Lonovavir]

There's also the fact that the Third Reich had wage and price controls, 4 year economic plans, confiscated metal fences before WW 2 to build weapons and business owners lived in perpetual fear of having their business/wealth seized by the SS.

[@innosam123]

@@Lonovavir One could argue much of that had to do with the war economy the Nazis were perpetually under.

[@williaml840]

Fascism allows independence that serves the state, to a communist that is the same thing as capitalism.

[@joshuas22]

True but I’d argue that national socialism should be categorised separate from Mussolini’s fascism. National socialists believe that Jews control both capitalism and classless communism, while Mussolini believed that the way to Unite Italy was through an all powerful state with all parties socialist and capital together. But Jews could be part of it ( as long as they were Italian and followed fascism )

[@Billmaster115]

@@williaml840 ironic that the soviet union did the exact same thing

[@solan7978]

How could anyone fail to see that Marx was an idiot? The whole idea of the state "withering away" is the most insanely ridiculous political forecast in history!

[@SkidMan_Jurej]

They absolutely NEED the State because who else is going to enforce their totalitarian policies?

[@loosemoose5217]

Marx, like most people actually, was very good at seeing the faults of captalism, which he laid out, he was very bad, like most people, at a proper solution, his criticisms were fine, in which we have mostly dealt with by using minor government regulation where ultimately necessary, he instead, wanted to throw everything out, and yea, the state withering away line is literally insane, the state will hold onto every bit of power, and even some it doesn't have lol

[@harleymitchelly5542]

Marx had a great pitch. (Although to what degree it was Engels who did most of the work is up for debate.) Basically, communism posits a simple solution for complex problems. As is the case with a lot of ideas like that, they propagate quickly and can easily entrench themselves. Basically, this question doesn't drive at the validity or invalidity of Marx's ideals, but rather the marketability of them, grand irony that is.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

"Yeah uhm like the people with absolute power are just gonna like give it up and fade away" Frankly anyone that reads Marx or Engels and thinks these men were anything but morons and conmen is probably legitimately mentally retarded. Barely made any points and both lived as parasites Especially Marx, never worked a day, lived as a parasite and had the gaul to critique the people allowing his further pathetic existence Read the letters his father sent him, the man deserved a bullet from his family, nothing less

[@jacobedwards4747]

No communist I've ever spoken to can explain how that's feasible. It's completely delusional and against human nature.

[@houseofhas9355]

If small business owners all agreed to stop, those same people hating them would get angry about it because there goes the town, the place would become a hellhole. Adults hating on a business is like a child hating Santa. Grow up.

[@npcimknot958]

imagine if they had the right to shoot thief...would end this stuff fast

[@robertpaulson2052]

@@npcimknot958 Honestly, this is what we get for not punishing thieves like they used to. Imagine twitter if thieves had their hands chopped off like they used to. There'd be a lot less commies on there and in the streets, that's for sure.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

All of socialism, from it's very beginning, has been spoiled middle-class "philosophers" hating on people who are better off than they are. Look it up, it's crazy how many socialists came from the more well-off parts of their societies.

[@houseofhas9355]

@@joshuarichardson6529 Karl Marx. His father's letter to him is proof. He was spoiled asshat who did nothing with his life but complain, and party. His father spoke of hard work as character building, which his son was not. Karl wanted to be spending spending like a spoiled brat. He was a loser low life who was filled with anger. I think dev covered video on it. Marx was in debt constantly in his life and it was draining the family resources.

[@Buzzkilljoy1248]

@@npcimknot958 Every new store owner should be entitled to a complementary sawed-off shotgun under the counter lol

[@Skibbi198]

"If you can't afford to have your goods stolen, you can't afford to have a business" Ok and if you can't live without welfare, I gotta tell you something...

[@spacebook8923]

“You have insurance so everything is ok” “Do you own a small business?” “Yes I do” “Ok I’m gonna go burn it down.” “Why would you do that?” “Why do you care? Don’t you have insurance?”

[@jackmanleblanc2518]

Better, burn down their house. "What, don't you have home owners insurance? Why do you care so much if I burn the house down?"

[@tatsuostatic8567]

Let them have a taste of their own medicine

[@jonahc2807]

What I will never understand about these people is their hatred of freedom. Like who the fuck doesn't like being FREE?

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

You would be surprised. The control freaks, the people that want "security" from the goverment, the useful idiots and the ideologues are just the most notable examples.

[@robertstan9733]

They don't like YOU being free to do thing that they disagree with. They LOVE freedom to do what THEY want. Typical petty tyrant bullshit

[@sabastianbragg1740]

Because they don't want you to be free.

[@sergeant_chris6209]

Tbh absolute freedom is hell too. The question is to find the golden mean

[@marjorie4310]

@@sabastianbragg1740 mic drop friend

[@plasticlance9418]

I believe this is what is generally known as “fucking around and finding out”

[@CornPop309]

I work at a small garden center, 8 total employees and it's the best job I've ever had by far.. hard work and don't get paid quite as much but the best work environment you could ask for.

[@MalleusSemperVictor]

There's something ironic about someone perpetuating Trotskyite nonsense being named "The Mother of Cats".

[@mh13mini]

Elaborate?

[@hanzumautist4945]

Ironic, or perhaps just apropos?

[@MalleusSemperVictor]

@@hanzumautist4945 Yes that's the word. You're a scholar and a gentleman.

[@sergeant_chris6209]

@@mh13mini the "mother of cats" i would guess is a play on Game of Thrones' "mother of dragons". She probably owns a lot of cats. Therefore the op is saying that it's funny how most communist women end up as lonely spinster cat-ladies

[@Kardel_VA]

Only when you're not an employee are you not considered bourgeoisie. If you own ANYTHING the progs will hate you. Translation: If you have something they don't, then you're bourgeoisie.

[@stevejones69420]

*Kulaks have entered the chat*

[@TheLurker1647]

"You will own nothing and be happy"

[@darkdawnbringer]

When i was homeless i used to "steal" food that was trown away from bins, but i would not steal anything else and leave the bins proper and neat, it fed me and my mates. And that is the only level of theft i'd say is proper, taking stuf people trow away to survive and feed your friends. This idea that people can/need to just steal tv's and nike shoes and candy is insane! Spoiled little brats that want more more more. These people would fold like wet paper if they ever lived a day like i lived for years...

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

My buddy who grew up in California told me that that they have laws about evidently discarded property is no longer individual property and open game. If that is true, that's probably one of the laws I can back in that state whose politics I despise. Because quite frankly, if I discard something, I'm wishing it to no longer be my property. But if one person has a use for it for some reason, I'm not going to knock them for taking it, just so long as they don't leave a mess.

[@simonpetrikov3992]

That’s not stealing that’s just scavenging unwanted remains

[@Snakedude4life]

If you steal; there are consequences. You deserve everything that happens to you. Period. 🎩 🐍 no step on Snek! 🇺🇸🇭🇰

[@TheGreenKnight500]

Amen to that 😎👍🇺🇸🦅

[@cancerbucket2245]

My mothe always tild me if inget caught i deserve the consequences if not then not

[@soundpalette2438]

@Trash Person hijabs as well

[@mh13mini]

@Trash Person if you ever want to break a proggressives mind, just hit em with "Islam is right about women."

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

Capitalism is literally legal theft.

[@marcusaustralius2416]

For example, my missus' family runs a road construction business One of their employees is a well paid, but has 6 kids and a wife, and is holding the fort on just his salary, so we also provide food from the local food bank, a car when he needs one, and plenty else besides. This is because he's a good worker, who's just fallen on hard times as jobs become harder to get here. Small business, hell, all business, it's not intrinsically bad, and Communists would shoot good people like my fiancee's father against a wall because they're incapable of viewing the world any other way

[@DIY_Miracle]

By the standards of socialist, if a builder owned nothing but his own hammer, he would still be considered an owner of the means of production. A large parcel of land and the tools to work said land are both means of production no matter how trivial it seems, as Marxist have told us through their justification for the evils committed to the supposed petit-burgouise. It's no stretch to understand how the kulaks with tiny parcels of land were liquidated in the USSR and SSR.

[@johnrockwell5834]

They invert the meaning of words. They lie and they want the actual workers dead.

[@agm5424]

You and TIKhistory are one of the few channels in yt that properly explain the reality of socialist Mrxst idiologies and it's differences with the private/free market.

[@Good100]

TIK is GOATed

[@sergeant_chris6209]

Tik is based

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

TIK is retarded, revisionist pseudohistory for insecure, illiterate "libertarians" i.e. Republicans on Drugs.

[@DemienC.]

Yeah, sure. Let's bankrupt small businesses, and healthy competition as result, and give it all to more ruthless corporations and their monopolies. Geniuses! 🙄 (golf clap)

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

Basically the coof lockdowns. Small businesses that gave people options outside the big name, nah close it. For everyone into the big name then complain about infection rates. Why let 2000 people choose which of the 5 stores to shop from when you can just force them into 1.

[@DemienC.]

@@slydoorkeeper4783 Amazon and big chains indeed made a hefty sums during lockdowns.

[@DrJohnWatson8]

Small business hatred is a litmus test for resentful losers

[@jcly96]

I ever open up a small shop and you steal from me you're leaving my shop in a body bag.

[@HBon111]

"Particles of Hitler" There is no hope for these people to recover.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

Especially ironic considering the system they're advocating is the same one Hitler implemented in Nazi Germany.

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

Never forget what they did to the Kulaks

[@BrandonSchleifer]

All the people who are opposed to small business owners convince me that small business owners should always be armed and have the right to use lethal force to defend their property. Shoplifters are predators - full stop.

[@seganesergrafxvision64_92]

I have an older cousin that runs a small business and she has told me it’s little difficult but her small business is doing great she even promotes her products on Instagram

[@mina_chiba]

These people will be happy when all businesses are gone and the only employer left is Amazon.

[@editorrbr2107]

This small biz owner is based AF.

[@astreakaito5625]

You're killing it dev!

[@porcelainchips6061]

"Lingering connections" ... Sounds like a logical reason why people would avoid any collaboration or interaction with this mentality. What creeps me out the most is how a lot of "commies" tend to have an expansionist attitude with all concepts; just like the "everything is political" statement, the idea of lingering connections is probably used/abused and will be extended-out over time to mean more then whatever it's original definition suggested. I really don't want a precedence set for a connection and shared vested interest to go beyond what is necessary; especially when you consider this same mindset advocates severing the naturally-formed connections you have with your family and local/regional relations. What sense does it make to end voluntary connections to then sign up for involuntary ones? I'd like to pick and choose who I am connected with, based on personal reasoning that I am comfortable with; not pre-prescribed by a dead white guy who asked for money from his family his whole life while refusing to get a job and complaining about "the jews".

[@rutgaurxi7314]

As a small business owner myself, I would beat them to death should anyone try to steal from me. Luckily, I live out the in the sticks.

[@Eirik_Bloodaxe]

If you’re in the sticks, I’d hope you had a gun.

[@necrosteel5013]

That woman is pulling of an absolute chad move, even if she has a shitty taste in merchandise. If being normal is fascism, then being hitler particles is a compliment. Communism's dehumanizing view of people only makes me more angry of having to be reduced to such a caricature like how these animals do to others honest working people.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

Hitler was just as "grabby" as the rest of the socialists were, but he was selective about who he stole from. That's the only difference between his movement and the communists, who felt they could steal from anyone without exception. The left complaining about hitler is ironic, considering they're advocating the very thing the nazi movement did in Germany.

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

Yes, it's because Communists "dehumanise" people, not Capitalists and Imperialists.

[@necrosteel5013]

@@nektariosorfanoudakis2270 absolutely, only communist believe that everything is based in material conditions. The captialist atleast has his/her individual character while the imperialists actually have a degree of morality they try to follow at the very least.

[@tylerbutcher2744]

I’m a small business and a creative. They hate us.

[@rwberger6]

"Don't you have insurance?" Said by person who has never had to make an insurance claim before.

[@joshuarichardson6529]

No, clearly insurance means you get infinite money anytime something happens. It's a win-win deal.

[@shyguypro9876]

A sole proprietorship may still have employees. It’s just that there is no legal distinction between the business and the owner of the business. Any liability incurred by the business is the liability of the owner, and vice-versa.

[@SkylineFTW97]

That's the point of an LLC. In the event of litigation, your personality assets are off limits. If you're a sole proprietor running a small company on a limited budget like I am, it's definitely the way to go.

[@shyguypro9876]

@@SkylineFTW97 Yes, but LLCs aren't everywhere. I know, for example, that LLCs don't exist in Ontario. Corporations do, but that's a legal entity distinct from the business owner.

[@theredneckunicorn9752]

The only issue I have with the store owner doing this is patently dangerous.

[@kikrinman1450]

Not really. If they steal from you and then have the audacity to attack you, you're both morally and ethically obliged to completely ventilate them for daring to attack you.

[@theredneckunicorn9752]

@@kikrinman1450 Its dangerous for the same reason why it is moral to kill a burgular in your house. You dont know what they are capable of or what they are willing to do.

[@kikrinman1450]

@@theredneckunicorn9752 it doesn't matter what they "plan" on doing or what they're "willing to do" if you're willing to put a bullet in their empty head.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

Agreed Thieves should just get ventilated immediately, that or just go Islamic. I thought it was extreme before I started working retail Now I completely see the point in just chopping off a hand for this shit. It also immediately marks them to everyone else as thieving scum

[@Sound557]

Eyy that’s one video topic off my list. Still got the trucker protest video, Marx and Gentile: the feuding brothers, the philosophy of Georges Sorel, “social fascism”, market socialism vs state capitalism, “white flight” vs gentrification, the Keffels-Destiny drama, the NDP and Jagmeet Singh: the genocidal madman, and "science vs science-ism" to look forward to

[@npcimknot958]

the trucker convoy was the most abuse I've seen in my life from thrbgov.. the attacking of vets, seniors women.. arresting and tossing people out in thrbmiddl of nowhere having them walk back to ottawa. I heard rumors of thrbstarlight tours the police did to natives and homeless where they froze to death.. didn't thinkbitbeas true. after the convoy it's 💯 teu. cops in Canada and gov murdered homeless and natives via freezing g them to death.

[@rando5673]

Thief being arrested = good. The part I'm not ok with is rummaging through the lady's purse. Also, pretty dangerous to follow her around. What if she got violent, or lead the owner to her drug dealer boyfriend who kills the owner and then destroys the evidence on her phone?

[@slydoorkeeper4783]

It was a ballsy move, but worth the message if you're able to get it out there. But also, I kinda see it similar to if someone murders a person. You're putting yourself in a grounds where you're saying you don't care about other people's property so now why should they care about yours? If I steal from someone, I'm breaking a mutual social contract, which now means that someone may steal from me. Therefore, I do not steal from others as to not be the aggravator of the contract.

[@popstarprincess123]

Don’t steal for ANY business

[@SailorGreen]

My guess is that there was at least one other employee at the shop, small business doesn't mean you're the only employee there.

[@Mr_Jumbles]

Rest in peace Norm. You truly were taken from us too early. I love you.

[@answerman9933]

Small business is another form of individuality. Progressives dislike individuality.

[@XartiXV]

So much for "Eat the rich." (I noticed that some of the shoplifters are mostly rich White women/young teens).

[@flamesintheattic]

Business owners didn't automatically choose tiny mustache man. They were forced to choose and some got the eff out while some chose poorly.

[@TheRealW.S.Foster]

That third tweet gave me a headache, Dev. Like, no amount of insurance in the world will ever help keep businesses big & small alive in this country if people keep on shoplifting. In fact, it's because of the non-stop shoplifting that you're seeing big-chain retail stores abandon parts of or wholesale Liberal/Democrat/Progressive-run cities -- too much money is being lost on stolen merchandise, and it costs money to restock what could eventually be even _more_ stolen merchandise. In the end, these businesses will fail or pack up and everyone will suffer for it. I know this is old news by now, but it's become a lot more relevant nowadays with how some of the big retail businesses have abandoned cities like Portland and San Francisco.

[@AvenDonn]

Reminder: same ideology that created the oxymoron "rich peasant" and executed you for having a bit of wheat

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

They existed; under a feudalist State some peasants have a "special" relationship with the state to have an advantage over the rest, even engaging in moneylending. They were the strongest supporters of Czarism in the countryside.

[@rattmane]

I kinda love when public humiliation is deserved

[@jong208]

Always figured cases like this to be a matter of game theory. Its much easier to socialize a smaller number of corporations and not an infinite number of small businesses.

[@KeyBladeMaster-Dan]

All small businesses should keep a few things handy for these types 12 Gauge Autoloader, A 45 Longslide With Laser Sighting, A Phased Plasma Rifle In The 40 Watt Range and an Uzi 9MM

[@cuomosrevenge947]

Dude you do perhaps the best job of connecting current happenings to their philosophical roots in such a convo we manner and short time. It’s really really impressive. James Lindsay has talked about having trouble putting things in a more digestible form and I feel like (even though you’re not necessarily attempting to deliberately) you’re filling the niche that exists for that type of content

[@Gulgathydra]

Ironically, I find it easier to justify stealing from large businesses. Faceless corporation can't cry its tears at you.

[@crimsonking440]

Yeah, but the jobless people who used to work at the walmart it closed can.

[@Gulgathydra]

@crimsonking440 Now that the Walmart is gone they can go back to working at one of the many stores that Walmart drove out if business. Maybe even open up a shop of their own.

[@greensmurf221]

Fascism... It's getting fucking tiring.

[@mylittledarkworldjohn4289]

Without small shops, nobody would have any of the big chains now, since they started years and years ago also small. To steal and such is generally a dick move, no matter if its a small or larger store

[@hengineer]

Sorry park episode nailed that

[@iceprincess2134]

Overall I'd say the business program at my uni was pretty based, saved for the ethics class. The assertions of stakeholder capitalism never sat right with me and now I know why.

[@samuelharnden9641]

I went and read their 7 points, "my reaction was. so it is repackaged socialism." after the summery and a summery of a rebuttal, my thoughts are "Oh it is a version of corporatism, socialism, and fascism (as set out by Giovanni Gentile)"

[@naswinger]

funny how these starbucks marxists are all very, very bourgeois with their apple devices and avocado toasts

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

Yes, because "bourgeois" is buying stuff and eating avocado, not having armies of wage slaves and corporate welfare to keep you afloat.

[@J-Wolf17FTW]

8:40 the late Norm MacDonald blesses this video.

[@clawofthefallen]

All of these people wanting to justify crime should BE in prison. Period, end of the story. Criminal behavior is criminal and that's that no matter how you wanna spin it. These are bullshit rotten people that deserve what's coming to them since childhood.

[@CharlieFoxtrot]

Prison? Nah, my solution involves rope after being caught in the act. My empathy machine has been breaking down the last few years. Really the only way to get rid of cancer is to remove it, not put bandaids on it

[@robertpaulson2052]

@@CharlieFoxtrot We were fucking arrogant fools to think that the old ways we handled crime were barbaric or primitive. No, they were perfected. This is what we get when we don't hang or cut off the hands of thieves. Eventually they congeal and form actual groups and political parties based on their severe deficits as people that will consume millions of innocent lives.

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

@@CharlieFoxtrot Funny, because Capitalism and Imperialism is the Cancer.

[@peterdisabella2156]

The insurance argument always frustrates me. Who would insure a business that gets looted every few months? They aren't that stupid which is how food deserts and the like happen.

[@Tential1]

See, this is why I hate Warren Buffett. He gets crowned as the best investor but he's just the first person on the server of the mmorpg. Now, I play, and I can't start an insurance company like he did.... People used to think insurance was insurance. Now, liberals think insurance is a magic money pot that pays for everything. The game is harder. Strategy, gone.

[@alani.8784]

Great video, Dev. Also, love the Norm MacDonald bits. 👍

[@sarphog]

Youre killing it by providing quality content and uploading regularly. Keep it up mate

[@shaulkramer7425]

This is a brilliant analysis.

[@VixxKong2]

Crabs in a bucket 🦀 They want to stay in poverty

[@saisameer8771]

Most of them are upper middle class rich kids who were pampered their entire lives and are not psychologically equipped to handle the imperfect reality of life.

[@VixxKong2]

@@saisameer8771 These kids tend to see themselves as poor since they don't earn a big salary, they just live from what their family has. They also glamorize hood life

[@nocuh]

Ice pick chips an individual portion for practical use, from a larger block. Interesting metaphor 🤔

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

"pEoPlE aRe JuSt StEaLiNg EsSeNtIalS aNd FoOd GuYs"

[@Fernybun]

>condoms, Nikes and TV's Weird diet, must be British cuisine.

[@abcdef-ms9mb]

The first clip is basically "you stole from me so I will doxx you" so basically both of them are wrong. One just initiated the wrongdoing, but neither are guilt-free.